Damnit Janet! Susan Sarandon is getting some heat for referring to the current pope as a Nazi (and then repeating it) in an offhand remark while talking about her movie 1995 Dead Man Walking on Saturday in the Hamptons. Seems that back then Sarandon sent a copy of the book the movie was based on to the pope. "The last one," she clarified, "not this Nazi one we have now." When her interviewer, Bob Balaban, gently tut-tutted she didn't back down and just repeated the remark. And now of course the Catholic League is furious!
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Susan Sarandon Calls Pope A Nazi, Gets Grief
Crowdsourcing A Nazi Photo Album
Here's an interesting little project from the New York Times: Crowdsourcing a mysterious Nazi photo album. An undocumented photographer in the 1940s captured dozens of haunting, unprecedented shots of Hitler, prisoners, and gravesites from various stops in Eastern Europe. They're part of a "historical puzzle" that the album's anonymous owner—a 72-year-old executive in the fashion industry who lives in New Jersey and works in Manhattan—is hoping to solve. He'd like to identify where the photos came from and sell them for "six figures or higher." Here's a look at one of the photos; go to the Lens blog for the rest.
Video: Watch Kirsten Dunst Cringe As Lars Von Trier Makes Nazi Comments/Jokes
If you're an award-nominated starlet, one of the things to worry about besides struggling with fame or having your purse stolen is when your notoriously provocative director decides to "joke" about his Nazi and Hitler sympathies during a Cannes Film Festival press conference. And if you're Kirsten Dunst, you react by squirming and wincing and just plain hoping he'll shut up. The Telegraph posted video of Lars Von Trier's now-infamous comments, with Dunst, who stars in his new film, next to him.
Lars Von Trier Says He's A Nazi, Understands Hitler, Finds Israel A Pain In The Ass (Then Apologizes)
Provocative Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier usually lets his art house films push people's buttons, but today at the Cannes Film Festival, he decided to push them during a press conference. Von Trier was discussing his new film Melancholia before he said, "I really wanted to be a Jew, and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because, you know, my family was German, which also gave me some pleasure."
Nazi Hunter Poses As Nazi To Get Ex-Nazi's Confession
According to the Times, Mark Gould doesn't like to be called a "Nazi hunter," but we can't think of another way to describe the obsessive way he spent eight years trying to get a confession out of ex-Waffen SS officer Bernhard Frank. Yesterday at a news conference in New York, Gould announced a lawsuit against Frank, now 97, after allegedly recording the former officer and aide to Heinrich Himmler admitting to signing a document in 1941 that spurred an attack on the village of Korets, in Ukraine. And how did this American with "extended Jewish family" get that confession, you might ask? He posed as a neo-Nazi.
Queens Assembly Candidate Sends Mailings With Swastikas
A Queens Democrat has sent out mailings illustrated with a swastika that label his rival for an open Assembly seat as an "extremist" who is "out of touch with our community's values." Just days before a special election for a northeastern Queens seat, former Councilman David Weprin attacked Republican and Conservative party candidate Bob Friedrich with literature showing the Nazi symbol and text accusing his foe of not taking a tough enough stance against hate crimes.
Nazi Comedy Skit Offends Jewish Parks Worker
Alan Spitalnik, a Jewish truck driver for the Parks Department on Staten Island, says he walked into a break room at Forestry Division headquarters last Wednesday to find three tree pruners performing an anti-Semitic skit for eight co-workers, who all "burst out laughing" when he entered. A source tells the Daily News that one worker wore a motorcycle helmet emblazoned with a swastika, another had a Hitler-style mustache, and the third comically brandished a flaming aerosol can. The trio then apologized, explaining that it was just a joke.
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